In what is a depressingly familiar scenario, pre-monsoon, the BMC made all the usual noises about being prepared for the monsoon. Yet, just a few days into the monsoon, it has been proved that the roads in Mumbai continue to get impossibly waterlogged. The pumping stations at certain locations didn’t work. The nullahs that were claimed to be cleaned after spending crores of rupees, were clogged.

Despite the civic authority having enough time to prepare for the monsoon, and add to that the fact that the rains have been one month late, we see that there is the same disruption in normal life, thanks to the havoc caused by heavy rains.